'THE ATTACK ON ANTWERP: Belgian infantry and artillerymen replying to the German attack on Antwerp'. Belgian troops fire from trenches at the side of a road; also shots of a gun emplacement in a field...
'SULTAN OF TURKEY: The Sultan accompanied by the Grand Vizier and all the Ministers leaving the Palace after a war council'. Elderly dignitaries, laden with decorations, leave the palace and enter ope...
'WOMEN'S MARCH THROUGH LONDON: A vast procession of women headed by Mrs Pankhurst, march through London to show the Minister of Munitions their willingness to help in any war service'. Filmed from a r...
'THE TOWN OF LILLE: The ruined appearance of the Manchester of France gives an idea of what would happen to English towns if the Germans were able to land in England'. Four shots, taken from a high an...
'OVER THE LINES: An impression of an army's position as seen by our aeroplane observers when over the German lines'. (Short caption.) Aerial shots of troops at battle practice, equipment, vehicles etc...
'SOUTH AFRICA IN FRANCE: Divisional Commander presenting medals to South Africans in Delville Wood'. Officer awards medals amid the devastation of the former woodland.
Investiture in Delville Woo...
Brief newsreel item of Scottish troops in training firing from a shallow trench, Britain, February 1915.
The merchant vessel has run aground on the shoreline just below the cliffs. Nothing else is in sight.
Newsreel item on the wreck of the SS Boston at Filey, Yorkshire, December 1914.